[Mothership] Gay man in China does sex work to support wife & daughter

While Singapore is trying to get its people to have more babies so we can avoid becoming like Japan , China, until a few years ago , was trying to get its people to have just one child. The one-child policy, despite the Chinese government’s best intentions more than three decades ago to pre-empt a population boom, has resulted in many unintended consequences. With forced sterilisations and infanticide, the human toll has been immense. And that’s not counting the sex-selective abortions that’ve caused a dramatic gender imbalance which means millions of men will never find female partners. Advertisement Gay Chinese men giving in to social pressure The policy also meant that Chinese men who have no other siblings are under even greater pressure to marry and have an heir to continue the family line. Not producing an heir is the most serious way of being an unfilial son, accord...